Isak McCune's 9th album and second as his plain first name, "Love is a Panopticon; We are Prisoners & Sentinels" is narrative listening music, meant to tell a story (almost) without words and paint a picture without brushstrokes. This album proceeds in the direction intimated by his previous work "I Was Alive" (2015) while introducing a richer, denser & more complex (yet lonelier) textural palette. "Love is a Panopticon" acts as a kind of inverted companion to that 2015 record and neatly ties together those implicit themes and sounds that were only incipient before. No MIDI was used in the making of this album.